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Tyler Yin
How AIDesigner.ai climbed from under $1K to $9.5K MRR by fixing ugly vibe-coded UI
Tyler Yin spotted that vibe-coded apps often worked but looked bad, then built AIDesigner.ai into a design layer for AI builders that grew from under $1K to $9.5K MRR in 30 days.
$114K/年·$1K MRR ／ 1 month·ソロ
SaaSデザイン🇺🇸 US
Giulio Greco
How a 17-year-old founder took ForgeGUI to $100K ARR by serving game developers' UI bottleneck
Giulio Greco focused ForgeGUI on the game-developer asset bottleneck, then used demos and community loops to reach a reported $100K ARR roughly six weeks after launch.
$100K/年·$100K ARR ／ 1 month·ソロ
SaaSデザイン🇺🇸 US
Cedric Roberge
How Cedric Roberge took Pep AI to $60K MRR by turning GLP-1 tracking chaos into a subscription app
Cedric Roberge found a fast-growing GLP-1 and peptide tracking niche, launched Pep AI quickly, then combined Reddit validation with creator-led distribution to reach a reported $60K MRR.
$720K/年·$10K MRR ／ 1 month·ソロ
モバイルアプリ健康・ウェルネス🇺🇸 US
Kyan Santiago-Calling
How ToneAdapt turned one guitar demo into a $25K/month app
Kyan Santiago-Calling built ToneAdapt as a fast guitar-tone matching project, then used TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, and relentless short-form demos to reach 100,000+ users and a reported $25K/month revenue run-rate.
$210K/年·初めての顧客 ／ 1 month·ソロ
モバイルアプリ教育🇺🇸 US
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Neel Seth
How Neel Seth turned manual Reddit outreach into ReplyDaddy's $1.5K MRR co-pilot
Neel Seth built ReplyDaddy from his own Reddit distribution problem, kept humans in control of every reply, and turned an AI-assisted MVP into a reported $1.5K MRR product.
$18K/年·初めての顧客 ／ 12 days·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇮🇳 IN
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Emanuele Di Pietro
How Emanuele Di Pietro turned a midnight Codex remote into Remodex's $10K first month
Emanuele Di Pietro turned a midnight challenge to control Codex from iPhone into Remodex, a local-first open-source remote that reached about $10K revenue in its first month.
初めての顧客 ／ 1 days·ソロ
モバイルアプリ開発者ツールNaples, Italy
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Sorin Alupoaie
How a solo developer turned Zendesk pain points into a €20K MRR app portfolio
Sorin Alupoaie did not start Swifteq by chasing a giant SaaS idea. He watched Zendesk support teams repeat the same painful workflows, shipped tiny apps around those pains, and grew a portfolio to €20K+ MRR.
$240K/年·$10K MRR ／ 4 years·ソロ
SaaS生産性Dublin, Ireland
Matt Anderson
How Matt Anderson took an AI LinkedIn prospecting agent to $1.1K MRR in 30 days
Matt Anderson did not build ProspectZero around bigger cold lists. He narrowed the wedge to LinkedIn buying signals, dogfooded the agent in public, and reached roughly $1.1K MRR before a churn lesson pulled revenue back near $900.
$11K/年·$1K MRR ／ 1 month·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
Lorik Morina
How Lorik Morina grew RotateProduct to $6.5K MRR with $20/day ads and Shopify intent
Lorik Morina did not wait for a viral launch. He took a 33-download, zero-MRR first day, layered Hacker News, $20/day Meta ads, Shopify App Store distribution and referral loops, and grew RotateProduct's app revenue to about $6.5K MRR by week 21.
$78K/年·$100 MRR ／ 14 days·ソロ
SaaSEコマースKosovo
Josh (hellwaiver)
How Josh turned a forgotten cover-letter side project into JobBuddy's $1K MRR
Josh launched JobBuddy as a free Reddit side project for cover letters, forgot about it for months, then turned thousands of organic Reddit users into a freemium AI job-search SaaS at about $1K MRR.
$12K/年·$1K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaS生産性🇬🇧 GB
Ramsri Goutham Golla
How Questgen.ai became a $4K MRR slow-cooked AI quiz SaaS
Ramsri Goutham Golla turned years of AI question-generation research, Medium posts, GitHub code, and a Udemy course into Questgen.ai, a solo edtech SaaS that reached about $4K MRR without a viral launch.
$48K/年·初めての顧客 ／ 2 years·ソロ
SaaS教育Hyderabad, India
Victor Bigfield
How RedditGrow.ai reached $500 MRR by making Reddit outreach safer and more human
Victor Bigfield turned five years of manual Reddit customer-finding into RedditGrow.ai, then crossed $500 MRR in about 30 days after replacing vague AI positioning with a concrete demo and human review workflow.
$7K/年·$100 MRR ／ 1 month·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🌍 Remote
Alex Nguyen
How Feynman AI reached $6K MRR by turning lectures into study workflows
Alex Nguyen built Feynman AI after seeing an international student struggle to follow lectures abroad. A one-month web MVP, fast user feedback, TikTok-style social distribution and App Store search took the solo education app to over $6K MRR in four months.
$72K/年·$1K MRR ／ 4 months·ソロ
モバイルアプリ教育Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Ivan Terekhin
How Sober Tracker crossed $500 MRR with privacy-first ASO
Ivan Terekhin built Sober Tracker after wanting a private, account-free way to track alcohol-free days. A plain search-intent name, simple mobile workflow and subscription switch made the app the lead earner in his indie mobile portfolio.
$6K/年·$100 MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
モバイルアプリ健康・ウェルネスTbilisi, Georgia
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Mun Jun (Edmund) Yong
How Easy Folders reached $3.7K MRR by organizing ChatGPT and Claude chaos
Edmund Yong turned his own overflowing ChatGPT sidebar into Easy Folders, a Chrome extension that added folders, search and prompt management before native AI-chat organization caught up.
$1K MRR ／ 6 months·ソロ
Chrome Extension生産性🌍 Remote
Wilson Wilson
How Ferndesk reached $2K MRR by making help docs update themselves
Wilson Wilson turned stale SaaS help centers into an AI agent workflow and reached $2K MRR after 228 days by compounding weekly product work, customer conversations, and founder-led content.
$24K/年·$1K MRR ／ 5 months·ソロ
SaaSAI / ML
Adrien (AdrienBrb)
How PostClaw reached $250 MRR by replacing a free trial with a hard paywall
Adrien turned PostClaw's early signups from curious free-trial tourists into paying users by cutting the free trial, adding a $17 entry plan, and showing up across founder communities every week.
$3K/年·$100 MRR ／ 28 days·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇫🇷 FR
Mohd Danish Yusuf
How NoCodeAPI reached $5K MRR by removing backend setup from no-code workflows
Mohd Danish Yusuf turned his own repeated API-integration pain into NoCodeAPI, grew it to $2K MRR in its launch year, then reached $5K MRR before a six-figure acquisition.
$1K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
API / 開発者ツール開発者ツール🇮🇳 IN
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Jason Zigelbaum
How Zigpoll reached $125K MRR by owning Shopify feedback surveys as a solo founder
Jason Zigelbaum turned ecommerce feedback pain into Zigpoll, stayed solo, and compounded to about $125K MRR by doubling down on Shopify merchants, agency operators, pricing fit, and customer-led product requests.
$1.5M/年·初めての顧客 ／ 7 days·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
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Giacomo "Peldi" Guilizzoni
Selling wireframing software before the official launch
Peldi Guilizzoni launched Balsamiq as a one-person wireframing tool, got a sale before launch, and passed $100K in total revenue in less than five months.
初めての顧客 ／ 0 days·ソロ
SaaSデザインBologna, Italy
IN
Ilya Novohatskyi
Turning tiny startup exits into a $1K MRR marketplace
After a COVID layoff, Ilya Novohatskyi built Microns on nights and weekends as a micro-startup acquisition marketplace, using no-code tools, Twitter and Product Hunt to reach $1K MRR in one year.
$1K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
マーケットプレイス金融🇺🇦 UA
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Andris Reinman
Turning open-source email infrastructure into $1K MRR
Andris Reinman built EmailEngine from a hard-won IMAP problem, got more than 1,000 GitHub stars before revenue worked, and reached $1K MRR in July 2022.
$120K/年·$1K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
API / 開発者ツール開発者ツール🇪🇪 EE
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Goutham Jay
From 100 followers to $1K MRR with a testimonial SaaS
Goutham Jay began building Famewall in public in February 2022, won the first paying customer in March, and crossed $1K MRR in September 2023.
$1K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaSマーケティング🇮🇳 IN
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Kostya Nesterovich
A privacy analytics startup survives six months invisible on Google
Kostya Nesterovich's Seline Analytics reached $1K MRR after 16 months, despite a domain migration that knocked the homepage out of Google for exactly six months.
$1K MRR ／ 1 year·ソロ
SaaSマーケティングEurope
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